>You should reconsider your hesitance here. Intellectuals need to stop tapdancing around the issue of white supremacy, and call a spade a spade.
I am not a US citizen and don't know anything about this person, so I stand by my position on being unqualified to say (hence asking).
Actually on a side note, I agree with you, but on the other hand am equally concerned about the 'level platform' (e.g. 'my opinion is as valid as your scientific method') that we currently have in society.
Having said the above - Yes, I am a hesitant debater in general, so for other circumstances, I agree.
The reference you provided seems a little tenuous to this to me FYI (and is also a single data point). That flippant comment from a single police force regarding a corporation does somewhat reflect the power of companies at the moment, but I am not sure whether it shows anything more than this.
Side note, the police also said along the lines of "we will not rule out prosecuting the driver" (paraphrasing) which strikes me as terrifying, as the driver was arguably avoiding negligence as much as possible, while Uber could be considered grossly negligent here.
>They are an institution historically grounded in anti-labor terrorism and slave catching, crafted entirely to elevate the security of private property above all other societal concerns.
To play devil's advocate here, so were the Dutch[1], Swedish[2] governments etc.) - Which are among the more democratically represented countries we have at the moment (no where near a pure democracy, but still some of the best we have). These nations now have comparatively liberal prison and policing systems.
>You should reconsider your hesitance here. Intellectuals need to stop tapdancing around the issue of white supremacy, and call a spade a spade.
I am not a US citizen and don't know anything about this person, so I stand by my position on being unqualified to say (hence asking). Actually on a side note, I agree with you, but on the other hand am equally concerned about the 'level platform' (e.g. 'my opinion is as valid as your scientific method') that we currently have in society.
Having said the above - Yes, I am a hesitant debater in general, so for other circumstances, I agree.
>http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/
The reference you provided seems a little tenuous to this to me FYI (and is also a single data point). That flippant comment from a single police force regarding a corporation does somewhat reflect the power of companies at the moment, but I am not sure whether it shows anything more than this. Side note, the police also said along the lines of "we will not rule out prosecuting the driver" (paraphrasing) which strikes me as terrifying, as the driver was arguably avoiding negligence as much as possible, while Uber could be considered grossly negligent here.
>They are an institution historically grounded in anti-labor terrorism and slave catching, crafted entirely to elevate the security of private property above all other societal concerns.
To play devil's advocate here, so were the Dutch[1], Swedish[2] governments etc.) - Which are among the more democratically represented countries we have at the moment (no where near a pure democracy, but still some of the best we have). These nations now have comparatively liberal prison and policing systems.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Slave_Coast [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade